Road Locomotive Engine
What is your favourite traction engine?
A large engine designed for moving significant loads over early roads. Even if a load was transportable by rail, it would still need a road locomotive and its crew, to cover the distance from the station to the final destination. If the load to be moved was too large for the railway, then the road locomotive was probably the only option and huge distances could be involved. Road locomotives had their moving parts covered like tractors and were available as single crank or double-crank compound engines, though mainly the later. Later years saw the fitting of solid rubber tyres.
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